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    Trevi Minutes, June 1993...
    jhadoc  February=1999

    SUBJECT:       Minutes of the extraordinary meeting of Trevi
                   Ministers in Copenhagen on 29 June 1993
    REFERENCE:     doc. dated, 3 November 1993, 9691/93, ENFOPOL 1
                   RESTREINT
    SEMDOC REF:    pre-Maastricht archive

    Introduction

    Just weeks after agreeing the Ministerial Agreement on the
    creation of the Europol Drugs Unit the Ministers are discussing,
    in secret, an extension of its roles - a fact denied in public.
    Minutes of the extraordinary meeting of Trevi Ministers in
    Copenhagen on 29 June 1993.

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    MINUTES

    from : the extraordinary meeting of TREVI Ministers
    dated: 29 June 1993 in Copenhagen

    Delegations will please find herewith the minutes of the
    extraordinary meeting of TREVI Ministers, held in Copenhagen on
    29 June 1993

    TREVI MINISTERS

    Minutes of the extraordinary meeting held in Copenhagen on 29
    June 1993

    Item 1: Welcome and opening of the meeting.

    1. The Chairman welcomed Ministers and their delegations to
    Copenhagen.

    Item 2: Adoption of the agenda.

    2. The agenda was adopted.

    Item 3: Location of Europol Drugs Unit.

    3. Ministers took note of the fact that no decision on either a
    temporary or permanent location of the EUROPOL Drugs Unit - or
    any of the other EC institutions - was made by the European
    Council in Copenhagen.

    4. Ministers also noted a letter of 28 June 1993 from the
    Netherlands Ministers for Justice to the Presidency in which the
    Netherlands Government expresses the view that, following the
    European Council in Copenhagen, any decision on the location of
    the EUROPOL Drugs Unit should be taken at a coming meeting of the
    European Council.

    5. The Netherlands delegation confirmed that it was their
    government's position that TREVI Ministers were no longer
    authorised to decide on a temporary location for EUROPOL and that
    consequently the Netherlands could not take part in any decision
    by TREVI Ministers to that effect.

    6. Several delegations did not agree with such an interpretation
    of the results from the European Council in Copenhagen, since the
    conclusions from the Council do not make any reference to the
    question of the location of EUROPOL/EUROPOL Drugs Unit or any of
    the various other EC institutions.

    7. The Chairman concluded that irrespective of how the results
    from the European Council were to be interpreted, the different
    positions of Member States made it impossible for the present for
    TREVI Ministers to reach agreement on a temporary location for
    the EUROPOL Drugs Unit. Consequently, Ministers had to restrict
    themselves to once again reminding the European Council of the
    urgency of a decision on the location of EUROPOL and to inviting
    the next European Council to take this decision.

    Item 4: Future of Europol Project Team

    8. Ministers approved the continuation of the Project Team for
    a maximum of another six months, and amended the mandate of the
    Project Team as follows:

    The Project Team will continue developmental work for the pre-
    conventional phase of EDU, particularly in the areas of
    intelligence and data processing (see Annex B to these minutes);
    and provide professional advice to the Ad Hoc Working Group on
    technical and practical matters related to the drafting of the
    convention establishing EUROPOL.

    The Ad Hoc Working Group will provide the Project Team with
    precise tasks; particularly in the area of intelligence and data-
    processing.

    The Project Team will also undertake, under the guidance of the
    Ad Hoc Working Group, to prepare general situation reports and
    crime analyses on the basis of non-personal information supplied
    by Member States and from other sources.

    9. As regards finance, Ministers decided that from 1 July 1993
    all Member States will contribute to the financial costs of the
    Project Team in Strasbourg according to the GNP key. In this
    connection a draft budget, which has been calculated on the
    premise that the Project Team will retain its existing members,
    was noted by Ministers. This draft budget is appended as Annex
    A to these minutes.

    10. Following interventions from France, Germany, and Italy it
    was agreed to emphasise that in the light of the amended and
    extended mandate of the Project Team all Member States should
    consider seconding liaison officers and/or crime analysts to the
    Project Team in Strasbourg. It was further stressed that the
    profile and composition of officers already seconded to the
    Project Team should similarly be reconsidered in the light of the
    amended mandate.

    Item 5: Appointment of the Caretaker Co-ordinator and recruitment
    procedures to be followed for the provisional phase.

    11. In accordance with the "step by step approach" adopted at the
    Extraordinary TREVI Ministers Meeting on 6 May 1993 in,  Kolding
    and at the TREVI Ministers Meeting on 2 June 1993 Copenhagen,
    Ministers agreed to postpone appointment of the Caretaker
    Coordinator until a decision on the location of the EUROPOL Drugs
    Unit has been taken.

    12. Ministers approved the recruitment procedures presented (see
    Annex C of these minutes) for the provisional phase for the
    appointment of the Coordinators. Ministers tasked TREVI Senior
    Officials to implement these recruitment and selection procedures
    for senior management during the provisional phase of the EUROPOL
    Drugs Unit.

    Item 6: Strengthening of European co-operation in the field of
    violent extremism against the background of the recent activities
    by militant Kurds.

    13. Germany, who had requested that this item be put on the
    agenda, gave an account of the recent events concerning the
    occupation of and attacks on Turkish institutions and diplomatic
    representations in Germany by militant Kurds.

    14. Ministers decided to intensify co-operation and the exchange
    of information on the PKK and connected organisations through
    TREVI Working Group I.

    Item 7: Any other business

    15. There was no discussion under this item.

    Annex A

    [Editor's note: Details the financial contribution of each member
    state]

    Annex B

    Administrative/Financial/Personal Issues

    Preparation of:

    -  detailed conditions for employment of personnel
    -  administrative and financial guidelines
    -  a business plan
    -  performance measurement

    Intelligence/International Coordination Issues

    - information requirements
    - definition of relationship between EUROPOL and other
         organisations
    -  preparation of guidelines on extending the activities of
         EUROPOL to other areas of crime
    -  guidelines covering links between EUROPOL and existing liaison
         officer networks
    -  criminal analysis guidelines

    Data processing

    Produce a detailed long term strategy for IT requirements and
    recommendations for hardware and software study the technical
    feasibility of establishing links with other systems.

    Further developments

    Testing of communications between EDU and Member States, testing
    of working methods and practices for EDU, which could include
    potential EL0s to receive on-site training

    RECRUITMENT PROCEDURES FOR THE PROVISIONAL PHASE FOR THE
    APPOINTMENT OF THE COORDINATOR AND ASSISTANT COORDINATORS

    Introduction

    1. TREVI Ministers are invited to approve the proposed
    recruitment procedures for three senior management posts for EDU
    in the provisional phase, when analysts will have been added to
    the team of EUROPOL Liaison Officers, and the Unit will need an
    additional Assistant Coordinator to oversee its intelligence
    work.

    Recruitment

    2. It will be open to every Member State, with the exception of
    the host country for The EDU, to apply for any of the three
    senior management posts. The Presidency will send a formal
    invitation to Member States. This will include a job description,
    essential qualifications necessary for the posts and a deadline
    for curricula vitae of candidates. It will be open to the
    caretaker Coordinator and the caretaker Assistant Coordinator to
    apply for the posts and to be considered under the same
    procedure.

    Selection - Coordinator

    3. Candidates whose applications meet the essential
    qualifications for the post will be interviewed. This could be
    by the full meeting of TREVI Senior Officials, who will consider
    each candidate on the basis of his/her interview and curriculum
    vitae. Alternatively, TREVI Senior Officials may wish to appoint
    a smaller interview panel.

    4. Each candidate will be considered against a set of weighted
    criteria, agreed in advance of the interview by TREVI Senior
    officials.

    5. TREVI Senior Officials will report on the selection process
    to TREVI Ministers and recommend one or more candidates for
    appointment to the post of Coordinator.

    Selection - Assistant Coordinator (Administration) and Assistant
    Coordinator (Intelligence)

    6. Candidates whose application meet the essential qualifications
    for each of the assistant posts will be interviewed by a panel
    decided on by TREVI Senior Officials. They will also be
    interviewed on the basis of weighted criteria agreed on in
    advance by TREVI senior officials.

    7. Recommendations of one or more candidates will be made to
    TREVI Senior Officials by the panel for appointment to each post.

    8. TREVI Senior Officials will be required to agree:
    - job descriptions for each post;
    - essential qualifications; and
    - weighted interview criteria.

    Recommendations

    9. TREVI Ministers are invited to agree the recruitment and
    selection procedure, and to task TREVI Senior Officials with
    implementing the recruitment and selection procedure for the
    senior management in the provisional phase.

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